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Product Development: Thesis Collection Development

Focus on product development for your individual final project. Using knowledge about fabrication, silhouettes, color, sampling, sourcing, and costing, you will analyze target markets, research, and trends to create your product lines.

Textiles: Design Studio

Explore a variety of foundational and advanced techniques used in textile design. You will develop practical skills using various techniques to create original textile prints.

Fashion Business: Industry Dynamics

The business of fashion is complex. You will get a comprehensive look at how various components of fashion business—product development, sourcing, buying, marketing, and retailing—are intertwined to create a powerful industry.

3D Design 1

Build a foundation in 3D design and garment development. You will be introduced to pattern shape manipulation and learn core principles of pattern drafting and garment construction to meet commercial fashion standards.

Fashion Design 3

Take your design skills to the next level. You will collaborate on a project to expand your knowledge of target markets, apply sustainable practice in your design process, and develop a body of work that represents your ideal future in the fashion industry and showcases your design philosophy and strengths.

Fashion Business: Thesis Financial Planning

Profitability and cash flow. You will take a deep dive into the financial aspects of your approved business plan to make improvements for your final thesis project.

Textile Design: Senior Thesis (Fall)

Integrate technical skills and design thinking to create innovative textile collections grounded in material choices. You will apply advanced surface treatments, fabric manipulation, and printing techniques to a range of textiles, including those selected for sustainability.

Drawing for Fashion

Develop foundational skills in design sketching through observation and replication. You will become familiar with body proportions, basic human anatomy, and figure balance.

Creative Concepts for Fashion

Focus on original and creative hands-on development for collections. Color, fabrics, proportion, silhouette, customer, and wearing occasion are explored through 2D and 3D development.

Fashion Business: Digital Techniques

You will learn to work fluidly between graphic design software programs and create concept boards, branding, merchandising and production documents, and marketing collateral to communicate information effectively.